Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-03-09
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Ed TED BY THE w. G. y. L.
FOR THE CHILDREN


hi grand children OLA narrow escape
foin falling into n deserted mine, in
the uloors of Cornwall, draws this
moral:
"And now, my boys" continued
grandpa, "if you will listen, l will
tell you of another journey over far
broa. Ter moor, in which / nave also
met these same danger signals all
along the way. At its very outset
might we'll be written thos" words,
'Bew are of pitfalls for it is indeed
full OF them, and the friends awaiting
us on the other side have not left us to
walk amid them unwarned.
"In tine guide book given us, mark
ing eli the way, among its early
pages we meet the first warning as it
stands above wide, open pit-'Be-
warev Beware that thou forget not
the Lord
"Thrnk for moment, boys, of the
many young hearts reared from child
hood in the reverent remembrance of
God, who go forth in life aud fall
early into 1a is very snare, forgetting
Him they IGad promised to serve.
Upon its brinls blooms many IL gay
flower, concealing the sill perry path
beneath.
"rhe next danger signal is written
in words even more earnest-'Be-
ware" Beware, / pray thee, and
Need we pause even for Il moment to
look within this chaSiU dark and deep
half hidden by deceptive, entangling
vines, at the bottom Of which lay
countless souls, lost through ignoring
this warning abo we it, and into which
daily fall countle IS more?
again the sign al stands before us,
expressed, it may be, in language
less plain, but full of meaning for
those who will receive it. Beware!
Beware thou pass n,st such II placen
Oh, the many places OF evil untold,
standing apart from the roadside OF
/ life, which, in order to find, one must
deliberately turn aside and seek their
danger. My boys, heed Gods warm
ing, and beware thou pass not such a
place. for within them lurk the
enemies of mind, body and soul, more
subtle than any human foes.
awe 60 onward, and again the
[ faithful warming rises before us-'Be-
waren Beware of false prophets
| More dangerous far than the voice of
] open profanity, the undlsguised
! scoffer, is that which protesting to
| teach Gods word, yet distorts it's
plain truths, and entwines it with the
I fallacies of man; the voice that pro-
claims there is no eternal recOmpense
| for the violation of Gods Iaw-that
he who is all merciful to reward, is
too merciful to punish.
"Bewaren Beware of covetousnsss,
is the next signal of danger, and
could there be one more timely or
ueedtul? Turn with but glance to
the daily records OF our land, and see
the numberless ones cngulfed in this
pitfall smoother thnn glass, who lie
PROSTATE in the darkness, pitiful
wrecks in heart and soul, never again
to breathe joyously the clear light OF
day. May it not truly be called one
of the most treacherous dangers along
the way?
Beware! Beware Of evil workers
comes again the warming, and how
many IL boy starting out in life with 8
heart innocent of all evil intent, IL
| wrecked within this waiting snare
Where one pure soul ennobles black
t | ened ones with whom it comes In
close contact, a hundred arc corrupted
Therefore, shun evil companions Il:
3 you would contagion, remembering
r it is Gods own warming.
| "And now we Genie to the last. BE
r ware!' Beware, lest amy man spoi
] you through philosophy and vain de
] ceit." This warning was placed Oh
n the roadside nearly two thousan,
i years ago, yet is the pitiall. 1t span
s just as open, just as dangerous as then
5 See the many, calling themselve
@ seekers of God, yet flocking 10 tn
# very mouth of he cavern tn lool
g within, greedily listening to- tn
e sounds issuing from 1t, the word
Il spoken or written labeled 10y HE
/ philosophy oy Cod, profane am
It vain babblings, "pnnsit!ons If sciencs
e falsely 50 called. Will you ventur
e thus to ignore the Warming, TO ris
Is the terrible fall, simply to gr;,tif
e what you call mere curios:tyS Ma
God protect you in such risk. far Oh
wisdom of youth is indeed weak
cope with the gilied sorhistry, tn
Us vain deceits' Of the evil one.n
= The story had ended somewha
d seriously, but it Is time for earnest
c. serious thought; and with the retur